Monday 14 March 2011

Does The Quality Of Your Content Really Matter?

Generating continuous content for your business is now widely recognised as an important part of search engine optimisation. Online businesses need to be consistently producing articles, blog posts, press releases and content of many other kinds too.

However, despite the majority of business owners understanding the relevancy of content in an SEO campaign, some do not recognise the importance of the quality of this content. They believe if the content they create features a few appropriate keywords and is new, it will receive attention and interest. Those with this view argue the quality of the content they write is not as important as SEO experts state and so put little effort or thought into their writing.

The results achieved by those with this attitude speak for themselves. Website owners who do not regard quality of content as of utmost importance do not achieve top rankings, do not significantly increase the amount of traffic visiting their web pages and do not increase their conversion rates either. This is because quality is in fact of great importance when writing content as part of your search engine optimisation campaign.

Online business markets are extremely competitive and site owners need to find ways to show others their business is the best. They need to build respect and trust for their brand in everything they do and content can play a big part of online reputation management. If you have a great deal of high quality content pertaining to your business available online, others will read it, recognise your business as a company of quality and will be more likely to consider your business again in the future too.

Links are also of huge importance in SEO and the only way to get high quality links to your website is if your content is of a high quality too. No respectable site owner is going to want to link to your site if it is not up to scratch because this sort of association can be damaging. If you have quality content, the links to your site will reflect this and this will get the attention and respect of the search engines.

However, high quality content is not just about developing your brand within the online community or achieving better rankings in the search results. It is the content you create which must communicate with your audience. You have a lot of information to give potential and existing customers and you must do this clearly and effectively if your business is to ever be successful. High quality and well-written content will help you to develop relationships and give others the information they want and require.

If you are told the quality of SEO content is not important, don't listen. The content you create must always be the best possible so it works appropriately for your SEO campaign and your business.


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6 comments:

  1. I would like to think your right. It makes perfect sense and beside I keep trying to put quality 5 days a week, if you said it didn't matter I would be one upset blogger lol

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  2. I agree. Enrich your website with quality content. It's really essential to set yourself apart from your competitors and attract more web visitors.

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  3. Thank you for pointing out these posts to me via Bloggers Network. I spend a day, sometimes longer, researching just to write one quality post.

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  4. Content is king. It's very important to have quality in your content. I really believe it matters for your business.

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  5. Yes, quality contents matter in terms of SEO. In fact, the most recent Google update focuses on tracking duplicate contents and spam articles.

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  6. The question of whether quality of content actually matters or not is easy to answer. Do you like poorly-written articles? Will a poorly-written article entice you to check out the rest of the website the article is hosted on? No? The same goes for most people.

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